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our defense budget keeps exploding. so an iranian crisis comes at the absolute worst time for this country. >> that's what i was saying early on. >> on so many points. >> things could change dramatically this year. >> richard and i have talked about this a lot. in search of a metaphor, have i been thinking about the islamic role in africa and the middle east, think of it size a large, very dry forest after years of drought. and a lightning strike anywhere, which is unanticipated, starts a brush fire. and then it goes across. we just saw what happened in algeria. what's going on in syria at the moment. and we are not dealing state-to-state. there's an entirely new set of rules for dealing with that critical part of the world, to say nothing of the 300 million people who live there, the oil, the energy we have invested, and as richard and i have been talking, what happens to the kingdoms, saudi arabia next door? with an aging leadership. and they are in the bunker at the moment. and then all of the gulf states as well. jo
our defense budget keeps exploding. so an iranian crisis comes at the absolute worst time for this country. >> that's what i was saying early on. >> on so many points. >> things could change dramatically this year. >> richard and i have talked about this a lot. in search of a metaphor, have i been thinking about the islamic role in africa and the middle east, think of it size a large, very dry forest after years of drought. and a lightning strike anywhere, which is...
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chief of defense forces states are getting here. some of them are writing this evening ahead of a crucial meeting on tuesday in which they are forced to map out a plan for deployment. of this plan -- some say this plan is going to be presented to the heads of state of those who will be on the ivory coast on saturday. what they are also samying is the outcome will depend on a security meeting on monday in which the international community in member states of the u.n. are supposed to pledge their support. what we know is most of the states may not be able to fund themselves and bring their soldiers here. it seems it france might be left holding the candles for a while. they are finding the best way to bring their troops here. that would need a lot of support. >> interesting. thank you. of appeal has ordered a retrial for ho hosni mubarak and his security chief. they were accused of killing hundreds of demonstrators during the uprising. 846 protesters were killed. thousands more were injured. mubarak was sentenced to life in prison in
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. >> the defense minister vowed the air strikes will continue until rebel groups no longer threaten mali or europe. coming up, president mubarak's supporters celebrate after a court orders a retrial for the former egyptian president. and then a year after the cruise ship ran aground. thousands take to the streets in parise rallying against gay marriage and adoption. and then teaching blind students ballet. >> hello. french planes have pusher deeper into northern mali. the vast area seized by rebels last year. jets bombed a training camp and airport in a rebel stronghold as more french troops pardon into the capital. brit ape and other european nations have pledged support and the u.s. has promised droughns. here is our report from the capital of mali. what is the latest you have found on the ground there? >> well, french forces have pushed deeper into the rebel territory. but also, an army base that belonged to the malian forces have been taken over by the rebel forces and has been razed to the ground. the french forces now want to weaken the military might of the rebels. here in bamako
. >> the defense minister vowed the air strikes will continue until rebel groups no longer threaten mali or europe. coming up, president mubarak's supporters celebrate after a court orders a retrial for the former egyptian president. and then a year after the cruise ship ran aground. thousands take to the streets in parise rallying against gay marriage and adoption. and then teaching blind students ballet. >> hello. french planes have pusher deeper into northern mali. the vast area...
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neither club could put up a solid defense. this good-looking defense put shaka up as they found the net. otherwise, it seemed just about every shot on goal found the goal keeper. in stoppage time the scoring was rounded out and 5-4, the final score. >> today's matches, league leaders have what looks like a pretty straightforward home -- meanwhile the number two on the table are playing host to one of the surprise packages of the season so far. frankfurt, who are in fourth spot. >> the joint coach wants to make sure his players won't rest on their laurels. >> satisfaction is always a dangerous thing in soccer. once again, we've got to be 100% concentrated on this game. we've got a lot of work left to do before we can be satisfied. >> and right after the winter break his success is being put to the test. trailing by just three points is the next team. >> we're pretty relaxed going into this match, since we are not favored to win. >> they seemed relaxed, especially stephen. as the league's top scorer before the break, he proved w
neither club could put up a solid defense. this good-looking defense put shaka up as they found the net. otherwise, it seemed just about every shot on goal found the goal keeper. in stoppage time the scoring was rounded out and 5-4, the final score. >> today's matches, league leaders have what looks like a pretty straightforward home -- meanwhile the number two on the table are playing host to one of the surprise packages of the season so far. frankfurt, who are in fourth spot. >>...
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it is to vote -- we just defense. we defend our territory. >> the previous cease-fire held for 17 years the separatists are in conflict again. they have been fighting for 20 months. in the south, the president says he is committed to seeking peace. he has just met with the chinese deputies foreign minister to discuss the issue. he has not ordered any army assault. >> in order to gain peace over the country, there -- it is for the taking -- go through the red tape as quickly as possible. >> rebel groups have already agreed, but for now, the fighters are in their bunkers under fire and far from the negotiating table. >> rebels in colombia are calling for a new truce pin the government. it said it would begin fighting today -- again. a report from the valley, one of the main conflict zone. >> they enjoy the last hours of relative peace in the village. a stronghold for rebels. in the last two months, there has been a drop in skirmishes. now, the rebels' unilateral -- unilateral cease-fire is over. they wonder how long unt
it is to vote -- we just defense. we defend our territory. >> the previous cease-fire held for 17 years the separatists are in conflict again. they have been fighting for 20 months. in the south, the president says he is committed to seeking peace. he has just met with the chinese deputies foreign minister to discuss the issue. he has not ordered any army assault. >> in order to gain peace over the country, there -- it is for the taking -- go through the red tape as quickly as...
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the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire i mean what i meant to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sold my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echoed the pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us who couldn't care less he will win again i know this. is a disgrace prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of
the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with...
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out is her very hard line she's chosen to take against president obama's nomination for secretary of defense chuck hagel the man who could be called out for a million different things but instead has been demonized first amy made over six years ago well the organization just posted this full page ad in new york times yesterday calling into question hazels loyalty and labeling him as anti israel even going as far as saying it including a quote from alan dershowitz that suggests hagel quote speaks the language of the bigots of to iran. wow strong language and look i'm not calling out abrams for having an opinion that she's more than entitled to but i am calling her out for blatant hypocrisy because the only reason chuck hagel is being smeared is anti israel is because he said this in two thousand and six he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i mean you noted state senator i'm not an israeli senator. true that so the reason the situation here reeks of irony is because rachel abrams is one of the most hateful human beings i've come across late
out is her very hard line she's chosen to take against president obama's nomination for secretary of defense chuck hagel the man who could be called out for a million different things but instead has been demonized first amy made over six years ago well the organization just posted this full page ad in new york times yesterday calling into question hazels loyalty and labeling him as anti israel even going as far as saying it including a quote from alan dershowitz that suggests hagel quote...
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are we really better off when we say no defense is a good defense? >> chris: i want to put up an ad that gun control advocates have started running against new democratic senator heidi hei dcamp of north dakota when she said some of the president's ideas about gun control are extreme. will that work. can ms. tanden and their allies and they have suggested they can drive a wedge between people like you, the heads of the nra and some of their members who may not be as hardline as you guys are on gun controls? >> i think the senator from north dakota is reflecting the views of the people that sent her to washington. so i don't think there is much room to drive any wedge. i think she is representing them rather faithfully and i think it is noteworthy that a democrat who would be under a lot of pressure within their are caucus to take a gun control point of view is not having anything other. >> that s not true. heidi heidcamp has heard from both sides of the issue and now said she is open to discussion of the issues. i think the challenge here for the lea
are we really better off when we say no defense is a good defense? >> chris: i want to put up an ad that gun control advocates have started running against new democratic senator heidi hei dcamp of north dakota when she said some of the president's ideas about gun control are extreme. will that work. can ms. tanden and their allies and they have suggested they can drive a wedge between people like you, the heads of the nra and some of their members who may not be as hardline as you guys...
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. >> late last year, turkey asked nato for a missile defense system. the pieces of that system came off of the boat from germany. >> the military equipment is now in turkey and not far from the border in syria and the organization insists that the hardware stays in this country. nato says that they are not crossing the border to get directly involved in the conflict in syria. -- >> germany and the u.s. have agreed to send patriot missiles to germany. -- >> our mission is to protect the town, are ranged between nato and the turkish allies, so i don't see any involvement in any offensive action, that is not what we're here for. >> turkey insists that they can handle the rest of their defense. the war is just on the other side of the fence. the patriots will stop missiles, but they won't stop the more immediate threat of the stray bullets, but still, turkey wants the hardware. they are taking every measure to keep the country save. the patriots are expected to be operational by the start of next month. -- >> thousands of musicians marched down pennsylvani
. >> late last year, turkey asked nato for a missile defense system. the pieces of that system came off of the boat from germany. >> the military equipment is now in turkey and not far from the border in syria and the organization insists that the hardware stays in this country. nato says that they are not crossing the border to get directly involved in the conflict in syria. -- >> germany and the u.s. have agreed to send patriot missiles to germany. -- >> our mission is...
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it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of and i look into this problem as a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really looked through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send ripples of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just really numbers of guards would not apply to that bay are the same places here on all sides what seems to. me is that to the insofar as the molly ivins probably sparklers nobody seems to think that perhaps for the most groups to come from somewhere other than mali it
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minister's brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a major corruption scandal for several months now and authorities are to quote lost his job in november and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates. now to other news from around the world a string of roadside bombings in shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday and extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shiite muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in a city north of baghdad although there was no immediate com a claim of response i should say responsibility such attacks are a tactic of sunni insurgents seeking to undermine the shiite led government. safe gadhafi the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi has appeared in court in libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago he is facing charges of handing secret data to an international criminal court lawyer putting th
minister's brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a major corruption scandal for several months now and authorities are to quote lost his job in november and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates. now to other news from around the world a string of roadside bombings in shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday and extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the...
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you bet, but the fight is going to be over chuck hagel for secretary of defense. that is going to be a proxy battle between what you might call the know 0-conservatives, the bush ii folks, mccain, lieberman, lindsey graham, and the others and what hagel stands for, john, is non- interventionist foreign policy. we don't go to war unless vital interests are at stake. we put our own country first. i think this is going to be the battle royal in the coming months. >> eleanor. >> nobody is a shoe-in with the republican party that fails to defeat president obama for reelection but still seems determined to make him a failed president but jacob lew is as close to a shoe-in as there can be. the only complaint you hear is that he hasn't spent enough time on wall street, and for a lot of democrats that's actually a positive attribute. so he will be confirmed. and i believe senator hagel will also be confirmed, although that's a bigger fight, and his remarks about israel that somehow he isn't tough enough on israel, his objection to sanctions was that they were unilateral. h
you bet, but the fight is going to be over chuck hagel for secretary of defense. that is going to be a proxy battle between what you might call the know 0-conservatives, the bush ii folks, mccain, lieberman, lindsey graham, and the others and what hagel stands for, john, is non- interventionist foreign policy. we don't go to war unless vital interests are at stake. we put our own country first. i think this is going to be the battle royal in the coming months. >> eleanor. >> nobody...
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defense chief leon panetta has on a week long tour in europe shaking hands for the last time to rush or american military innings while in spain his side the u.s. will be boosting the number of troops in the country basing out the european on to missile shield but international human rights catches doubler believes washington's stuck in a cycle it's simply called break. in military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states being at peace in any type of permanent manner wars for the united states are a double sided sword on the one hand because the military industrial complex accounts for probably about seventy five percent of the american economy they produce an input to that economy on the other hand as we seen in afghanistan interact they also drain the economy on one side so it's almost eighty eighty six endless circle a half to continue off in b.'s interventions to be able to bring in the resources to be able to then say we're able to have new interventions and unfortunately that's been the story of the last.
defense chief leon panetta has on a week long tour in europe shaking hands for the last time to rush or american military innings while in spain his side the u.s. will be boosting the number of troops in the country basing out the european on to missile shield but international human rights catches doubler believes washington's stuck in a cycle it's simply called break. in military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states...
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law thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of japan based news website james corbett however suggests all teary motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current context bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching out for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapons so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that with a four hundred kilogram me old that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new for underground nuclear facilities or alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric over to the asia pacific
law thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of japan based news website james corbett however suggests all teary motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current context bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the...
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well top stories nights we reported that russia's former defense minister could find himself in the center of a criminal case and i told he said the coffs now being investigated over allegations of abusing his power the probes already revealed that some top defense officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens of a military vacation facility belonging to city cops brother in law the defense ministry is also working at the center of a multi-million dollar embezzle month scandal for several months until he said of course was fired by president putin november he's been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former colleagues to. other world news the latest round of talks officials from the u.n. nuclear watchdog are returning from iran without securing a deal on investigating suspected atomic bomb research i am specters being denied access to a military site which they've been trying to get inside for several years now more talks have been reshow jools for mid february the us and israel of long accused iran of efforts to develop nuclear weapons that is something that continue
well top stories nights we reported that russia's former defense minister could find himself in the center of a criminal case and i told he said the coffs now being investigated over allegations of abusing his power the probes already revealed that some top defense officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens of a military vacation facility belonging to city cops brother in law the defense ministry is also working at the center of a multi-million dollar embezzle month scandal for several...
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defense secretary leon panetta was on a week long trip to europe to discuss close military link ups and includes a visit to spain where washington is looking to double its defense presents this year spanish international affairs experts believe this is just one part of america's push to extend its worldwide influence. you know that i said. you have to take into account that there are two strains of thought within diplomatic circles in the united states or one of them is that they have to. and the most serious danger comes from the east from china and so they think they should reinforce their military and political presence in asia and the other strain and leon panetta and president obama a part of it says that the u.s. has to be present in the boat so the operation and therefore they also have to deploy the into missile defense shield that is a provocation against russia. now mourners in chicago have said to full farewells at the funeral of freedom of information activist aaron swartz he took his own life last week under pressure from federal prosecutors who sought her thirty five year
defense secretary leon panetta was on a week long trip to europe to discuss close military link ups and includes a visit to spain where washington is looking to double its defense presents this year spanish international affairs experts believe this is just one part of america's push to extend its worldwide influence. you know that i said. you have to take into account that there are two strains of thought within diplomatic circles in the united states or one of them is that they have to. and...
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law that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how the u.s. could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals we'd better get into this right now james corbett joins us live on the program. based news website of the call but a pleasure to see you thanks for coming on so quickly the u.s. government is operating on the assumption that there are three thousand miles worth of tunnels crisscrossing china allegedly containing three thousand nuclear warheads do you believe it. well i'm not even sure that the u.s. government really believes that this is really on the back of a study that was commissioned out of georgetown university last year were two years ago now that found that in this network of tunnels that we do know exist and we can see from out of satellite telemetry we do know that the these tunnels exist and it's just sheer speculation about what exists within them at this point u.s. intelligence estimates puts the chinese nuclear arsenal something like three hundred but this this stud
law that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how the u.s. could strike at the network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals we'd better get into this right now james corbett joins us live on the program. based news website of the call but a pleasure to see you thanks for coming on so quickly the u.s. government is operating on the assumption that there are three thousand miles worth of tunnels crisscrossing...
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would a secretary of defense hagel pro-provide over the hollowing out of the defense department? >> the biggest concern with respect to who will league out is this sequester that's hanging like a sword over the department. that's what they had tried -- have to not let that happen but with respect to going in and finding things within the department of defense that perhaps you don't need or you can eliminate, if that's what you mean by bloat, i hope he does find bloat and gets rid of it. >> agree with his characterization that it's bloated? >> bloated doesn't necessarily mean the whole department is bloated. bloated mean there is are probably things in the department that you can take a hard look at and determine whether or not you need it in light of the current situation and the strategy we are implementing. when i was chairman, we saw the end of the soviet union, completely different change in our strategic positioning. and we eliminated 1 million troops and cut the budget 25%. that's not the case now. but there's no reason why a secretary of defense should go into office think
would a secretary of defense hagel pro-provide over the hollowing out of the defense department? >> the biggest concern with respect to who will league out is this sequester that's hanging like a sword over the department. that's what they had tried -- have to not let that happen but with respect to going in and finding things within the department of defense that perhaps you don't need or you can eliminate, if that's what you mean by bloat, i hope he does find bloat and gets rid of it....
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defense secretary is in italy during his last week long tour of europe before he steps down leon panetta has been reaffirming washington's military links across the atlantic earlier in madrid he said america will double its presence in spain this year international human rights lawyer curtis doebbler believes that washington is stuck in a tedious cycle with the defense industry the american military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to the united states being at peace in any type of permanent manner or is for the united states or a double sided sward on the one hand because the military industrial complex accounts for probably about seventy five percent of the american economy the produce an input to that economy on the other hand as we've seen in afghanistan interact we also drain the economy on one side so it's almost a endless circle a have to continue off in these interventions to be able to bring in the resources to be able to then say we're able to have new interventions and unfortunately that's been the story of the last. t
defense secretary is in italy during his last week long tour of europe before he steps down leon panetta has been reaffirming washington's military links across the atlantic earlier in madrid he said america will double its presence in spain this year international human rights lawyer curtis doebbler believes that washington is stuck in a tedious cycle with the defense industry the american military industrial complex which we've been warned about by presidents is a very significant threat to...
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defense secretary john reid who when and how month five or six years ago. did you know probably within an hour very quickly and probably without even a bullet being fired thousands and thousands of years later. even the british army running out of nearly running out of bullets at one point in helmand due to the mass slaughter that it was initiating there we saw that that was a crock of lies and i think what hollande is saying is the same this is a ground invasion of africa and they're hoping france britain and the us are hoping to establish permanent military presence and occupation of africa and this is this is one way they're going to be able to do it it's not going to be a short story if you say if you say they're trying to get some sort of permanent occupation of this part of africa why what's their point what's their motivations are. well there's a number of things i think we have to analyze this from a number of different angles the first thing to be always borne in mind analyzing any western intervention in the third world that isn't in africa latin
defense secretary john reid who when and how month five or six years ago. did you know probably within an hour very quickly and probably without even a bullet being fired thousands and thousands of years later. even the british army running out of nearly running out of bullets at one point in helmand due to the mass slaughter that it was initiating there we saw that that was a crock of lies and i think what hollande is saying is the same this is a ground invasion of africa and they're hoping...
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want a new relationship in the political structure and probe into the activities of russia's former defense minister has led to a criminal case being launched and intel is here to kabul being investigated over allegations of abuse of power the program has already revealed that same top some top to fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens at a vacation base along into the former defense minister's brother in law a fan's ministry has been at the center of a manger of corruption scandal for several months now and it's always their dickov lost his job and amber and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates. and. you're watching our t.v. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a string of roadside bombings and shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the dast to at least sixty people since wednesday an extended a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting shiite muslim areas killed at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to a shrine in the
want a new relationship in the political structure and probe into the activities of russia's former defense minister has led to a criminal case being launched and intel is here to kabul being investigated over allegations of abuse of power the program has already revealed that same top some top to fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape the gardens at a vacation base along into the former defense minister's brother in law a fan's ministry has been at the center of a manger of corruption...
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i don't want it the recent war with gaza was a chance for tel aviv to test its iron dome missile defense system but his raids are anxious in part because of widespread media coverage of just how unprepared for war the country is many bomb shelters and residential buildings are rundown and neglected or have become furniture storage rooms while most of israel's arab citizens about to twenty percent of the population lack shelters altogether as the chances of war start looking all too real the army says four times as many israelis are collecting state funded gas masks and they were several months ago i'm a big concern it's not like i think they're going to be aware of. just. the side my here just in case and with impending doomsday predictions circling the country no one wants to be caught unprepared. r.t.e. television another some more news making headlines around the world for you this hour hundreds of the shia muslims took to the streets of pakistan's largest city of karachi urging the government to take extra safety measures this comes after a string of insurgent attacks claimed at leas
i don't want it the recent war with gaza was a chance for tel aviv to test its iron dome missile defense system but his raids are anxious in part because of widespread media coverage of just how unprepared for war the country is many bomb shelters and residential buildings are rundown and neglected or have become furniture storage rooms while most of israel's arab citizens about to twenty percent of the population lack shelters altogether as the chances of war start looking all too real the...
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just the defense budget itself. we spent $2.70 trillion above that base line, including for inflation, since 9/11 to make americans feel safe, and that is justified in many ways, but we are not having an honest discussion with the public. we are not looking at the security and the trade-offs that are happening, and we have spent a huge amount of money, but americans have not been feeling as safe as they should. he made comments, probably on c- span, as well, that you are not unpatriotic to ask questions of your government. it is patriotic to ask these questions. we should be having these debates and dialogues, and i think he is trying to make that. host: gary schmitt? guest: yes, i think many made comments, but the answer was not, let's get out and cut defense. the bush administration -- it was not until 2006 and 2007 -- something proposed in 2003, but they wasted several years, and there are plenty of criticisms for that waste. cut and run. the idea was to do precisely what we did. increase the force levels and cha
just the defense budget itself. we spent $2.70 trillion above that base line, including for inflation, since 9/11 to make americans feel safe, and that is justified in many ways, but we are not having an honest discussion with the public. we are not looking at the security and the trade-offs that are happening, and we have spent a huge amount of money, but americans have not been feeling as safe as they should. he made comments, probably on c- span, as well, that you are not unpatriotic to ask...